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Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-03026-8 — The Cambridge Companion to the Rolling Stones Edited by Victor Coelho , John Covach Frontmatter More Information www.cambridge.org © in this web service Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to the Rolling Stones The Rolling Stones are one of the most inuential, prolic, and enduring rock and roll bands in the history of music. This groundbreaking, specically commissioned collection of essays provides the rst dedicated academic overview of the music, career, inuences, history, and cultural impact of the Rolling Stones. Shining a light on the many communities and sources of knowledge about the group, this Companion brings together essays by musicologists, ethnomusicologists, players, lm scholars, and lmmakers into a single volume intended to stimulate fresh thinking about the group as they vault well over the mid-century of their career. Threaded throughout these essays are album- and song-oriented discussions of the landmark recordings of the group and their inuence. Exploring new issues about sound, culture, media representation, the inuence of world music, fan communities, group personnel, and the importance of their revival post-1989, this collection greatly expands our understanding of their music. victor coelho is Professor of Music and Director of the Center for Early Music Studies at Boston University, as well as a lutenist and guitarist. His previous publications include Instrumentalists and Renaissance Culture, 14201600 (with Keith Polk, Cambridge, 2016), The Cambridge Companion to the Guitar (2003), and Performance on Lute, Guitar, and Vihuela (Cambridge, 1997). john covach is Director of the University of Rochester Institute for Popular Music, Professor of Music in the College Music Department, and Professor of Theory at the Eastman School of Music. He is the principal author of the college textbook What's That Sound? An Introduction to Rock Music (2006) and has co-edited Understanding Rock (1998), American Rock and the Classical Tradition (2000), Traditions, Institutions, and American Popular Music (2000), and Sounding Out Pop (2010).

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    www.cambridge.org© in this web service Cambridge University Press

    The Cambridge Companion to the Rolling Stones

    The Rolling Stones are one of the most influential, prolific, and

    enduring rock and roll bands in the history of music. This

    groundbreaking, specifically commissioned collection of essays

    provides the first dedicated academic overview of the music, career,

    influences, history, and cultural impact of the Rolling Stones.

    Shining a light on the many communities and sources of knowledge

    about the group, this Companion brings together essays by

    musicologists, ethnomusicologists, players, film scholars, and

    filmmakers into a single volume intended to stimulate fresh

    thinking about the group as they vault well over the mid-century of

    their career. Threaded throughout these essays are album- and

    song-oriented discussions of the landmark recordings of the group

    and their influence. Exploring new issues about sound, culture,

    media representation, the influence of world music, fan

    communities, group personnel, and the importance of their revival

    post-1989, this collection greatly expands our understanding of

    their music.

    victor coelho is Professor of Music and Director of the Center

    for Early Music Studies at Boston University, as well as a lutenist

    and guitarist. His previous publications include Instrumentalists

    and Renaissance Culture, 1420–1600 (with Keith Polk, Cambridge,

    2016), The Cambridge Companion to the Guitar (2003), and

    Performance on Lute, Guitar, and Vihuela (Cambridge, 1997).

    john covach is Director of the University of Rochester Institute

    for Popular Music, Professor of Music in the College Music

    Department, and Professor of Theory at the Eastman School of

    Music. He is the principal author of the college textbook What's

    That Sound? An Introduction to Rock Music (2006) and has

    co-edited Understanding Rock (1998), American Rock and the

    Classical Tradition (2000), Traditions, Institutions, and American

    Popular Music (2000), and Sounding Out Pop (2010).

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    Contents

    List of Illustrations page xiiiList of Tables xvNotes on Contributors xviPreface xixList of Abbreviations xxii

    Part I Albums, Songs, Players, and the Core

    Repertory of the Rolling Stones

    1 The Rolling Stones: Albums and Singles, 1963–1974John Covach 3

    2 Guitar Slingers and Hired Guns: The Musicians of theRolling StonesBill Janovitz 18

    3 The Rolling Stones in 1968: In Defense of LingeringPsychedeliaJohn Covach 40

    4 Exile, America, and the Theater of the Rolling Stones,1968–1972Victor Coelho 57

    5 Post Exile: The Rolling Stones in a Disco-Punk World,1975–1983Paul Harris 75

    Part II Sound, Roots, and Brian Jones

    6 The Rolling Stones’ Sound: At the Crossroads ofRoots and TechnologyRalph Maier 101

    7 Driving Stones Country in Five SongsDaniel Beller-McKenna 121

    8 A “Gust of Fresh Air”: Brian Jones, Assemblage,and World MusicBrita Renée Heimarck 142

    Part III Stones on Film, Revival, and Fans

    9 Shine a Light: The Rolling Stones on FilmMichael Brendan Baker 165

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    10 Second Life and the Dynamics of Revival:The Stones after 1989Victor Coelho 184

    Postlude: Being a Rolling Stones Fan is Not a Choice But aState of MindPhilippe “Philfan” Puicouyoul 194

    Bibliography 206Index of Songs, Albums, and Visual Media Cited in the Text 214General Index 219

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    Illustrations

    1.1 The Rolling Stones in Paris, 1964 (Charlie Watts is absentfrom the photo). Courtesy HIP/Art Resource, NY. page 4

    2.1 Mick Jagger with Billy Preston, Plaza Monumental,Barcelona, 1976. Album/Francesc Fàbregas/Art Resource, NY. 33

    3.1 The Rolling Stones, 1967. Courtesy HIP/Art Resource, NY. 48

    4.1 Poster for the 1972 “Exile on Main St” American tour.Grybowski Collection, Library and Archives, Rock andRoll Hall of Fame Museum. 61

    4.2 Author in front of the 24-track Helios console insidethe Rolling Stones Mobile studio, 2016. NationalMusic Centre, Calgary, Alberta (photo by Tom Knowles). 64

    4.3 Cover of Life magazine (July 14, 1972) publishedduring the 1972 tour. Grybowski Collection,Library and Archives, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Museum. 72

    5.1 Atlantic Records promotional photo of theRolling Stones (1978). Jeff Gold Collection,Library and Archives, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Museum. 76

    5.2 African-American protestors of Some Girls outside WarnerCommunications, New York City, 1978. Jeff Gold Collection,Library and Archives, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame andMuseum. 86

    6.1 Publicity shot with Mick Jagger for Godard’s Sympathyfor the Devil [One Plus One], 1970. Jeff Gold Collection,Library and Archives, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame andMuseum. 108

    7.1 Mick Jagger and Dolly Parton following her performanceat the Bottom Line, New York, May 14, 1977. Jeff GoldCollection, Library and Archives, Rock and Roll Hall ofFame and Museum. 134

    8.1 Brian Jones playing sitar on Ready Steady Go, 1966.Jan Olofsson/Redferns/Getty Images. 151

    8.2 Rolling Stones concert at the Berlin Waldbühne,September 15, 1965. From l–r: Bill Wyman,Brian Jones, Mick Jagger. Photo: Alexander Enger,Preußischer Kulturbesitz; bpk Bildagentur/ArtResource, NY. 152

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    8.3 Inter-Office Memo from Andy Wickham to Mo Ostin,December 19, 1969. Mo Ostin Collection, Library andArchives, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum. 156

    9.1 Invoice for the rental of camera and recorder used byWhitehead for the filming of Charlie Is My Darling.Courtesy of Peter Whitehead. 169

    10.1 Hasbro “Rolling Stones Trivial Pursuit” (c. 2010).Photo by author. 186

    P.1 Rolling Stones concert at the Berlin Waldbühne:audience in front of the stage, September 15, 1965.Photo: Alexander Enger, Preußischer Kulturbesitz; bpkBildagentur/Art Resource, NY. 194

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    Tables

    1.1 Rolling Stones singles, 1963–65. page 71.2 Early Jagger/Richards songs. 81.3 Rolling Stones album projects, 1964–68. 91.4 Versions on the first four album projects (original artists). 101.5 Rolling Stones singles, 1966–67. 111.6 Rolling Stones singles, 1968–74. 131.7 Rolling Stones albums, 1968–74. 13

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    Notes on Contributors

    Michael Brendan Baker is Professor of Film Studies in the Faculty of Humanities &

    Social Sciences at Sheridan College in Ontario, Canada. He specializes in docu-

    mentary film and video, music and the moving image, and film history. He is

    author of numerous book chapters and journal articles on a range of subjects

    including documentary, popular music and film, and new media.

    Daniel Beller-McKenna is Associate Professor at the University of New Hampshire

    where he teaches courses in American popular music and the Western classical

    tradition. In addition to scholarship on Brahms, current projects include studies

    of Townes van Zandt and Johnny Paycheck, and an active avocation as a pedal

    steel guitarist.

    Victor Coelho is Professor of Music and Director of the Center for Early Music

    Studies at Boston University. His publications include Instrumentalists and

    Renaissance Culture, 1420–1600 (with Keith Polk, Cambridge), The Cambridge

    Companion to the Guitar, and Performance for Lute, Guitar, and Vihuela

    (Cambridge). As a lutenist he co-directs the group Il Furioso and records with

    Toccata Classics. As a guitarist he leads the Rooster Band, which for ten years

    toured with the Chicago bluesman, Lou Pride. people.bu.edu/blues/

    John Covach is Director of the University of Rochester Institute for Popular Music,

    Professor of Music in the College Music Department, and Professor of Theory at

    the Eastman School of Music. He has published on popular music, twelve-tone

    music, and the philosophy and aesthetics of music. He is the principal author of

    the college textbook What’s That Sound? An Introduction to Rock Music (2006)

    and has co-edited Understanding Rock (1998), American Rock and the Classical

    Tradition (2000), Traditions, Institutions, and American Popular Music (2000),

    and Sounding Out Pop (2010).

    Paul Harris toured Canada as a guitarist in the late 1980s with the Calgary roots-

    rock band, the Burners, prior to studying historical musicology at the University

    of Calgary (MA) and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Ph.D.).

    Since 2008, he has taught at the University of Puget Sound.

    Brita Renée Heimarck is Associate Professor of Music at Boston University. She has

    authored two books,Balinese Discourses on Music and Modernization (2003)

    andGender Wayang Music of Bapak I Wayan Loceng from Sukawati, Bali (2015).

    She is currently working on an edited volume entitledYogic Traditions and Sacred

    Sound Practices in the United States.

    Bill Janovitz has appeared and published widely as a specialist on the Rolling Stones

    and is the author of Exile on Main Street for the 33⅓ series and Rocks Off:

    50 Tracks that Tell the Story of the Rolling Stones (2013). He is also a singer,

    guitarist, and songwriter in the band Buffalo Tom.

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    Ralph Maier is on the faculty at the Mount Royal University Conservatory of Music,

    and at the University of Calgary where he teaches classical guitar, chamber

    music, and a wide range of musicology classes from Renaissance Print Culture

    to 1970s Progressive Rock. Recent projects include the recording, engineering

    and production of his most recent CD, Variations, with performances on vihuela,

    baroque guitar, romantic guitar, classical guitar, and electric guitars.

    Philippe “Philfan” Puicouyoul is a French filmmaker at the Centre Pompidou in

    Paris. His work deals principally with fans, audiences, and the culture of music,

    and he has produced films dealing with the French punk scene (Le brune et moi,

    1981) and fans of the Rolling Stones (Vers l’Olympe: être fan des Rolling Stones,

    2008). He is the author of Pop Fiction (1991), about being a fan at rock shows.

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    Preface

    The long and durable musical career of the Rolling Stones continues to

    span almost the entire history of rock and roll. Making their recording

    début in 1963 with their single “Come On,” a Chuck Berry cover, the

    Stones were catalysts in the important British blues revival of the early

    1960s, and along with the Beatles, Animals, Who, Kinks, and Yardbirds

    spearheaded the British pop music invasion of the 1960s. Appearing first

    on widely watched nationally televised variety shows, followed by regular

    tours, the group has now played more than 2,100 shows, reaching some

    45 million fans.1 For over 50 years, and with a body of music amounting to

    over 400 songs, they have sustained an impact that has been musically

    influential, culturally powerful, and economically crucial to the develop-

    ment of virtually all aspects of the massive rock music industry. Adapting

    to and in many cases anticipating new (or retro) trends in popular music

    during their long career – rock, folk, psychedelic, funk, punk, reggae, disco,

    and others – the Stones nevertheless remained true to the fundamental

    stylistic roots and sound of rock and roll: R&B, country, and most of all,

    the blues, to which their indebtedness is reverential. Their amalgamation

    of these styles into an individual, highly distinctive, roots- and riff-based

    sound, along with their trademark subversive attitude (no less influential

    than their music), skillfully mediated the commercial and poetic boundar-

    ies of popular music. As a result, the Stones are both a barometer of rock

    aesthetics and a guide to its culture over the last half-century.

    Given their long career and vast musical production, the group has

    received prolonged attention through some excellent journalism, detailed

    reference works chronicling their tours, recordings, and gear, studies of

    specific albums, biographies, and key autobiographies by Bill Wyman,

    Keith Richards, Ron Wood, Marianne Faithfull, and Andrew Loog

    Oldham, all of this supplemented by extensive concert footage, interviews,

    film documentaries, and a – literally – weighty amount of large-format,

    glossy, but occasionally valuable books in the “coffee table” genre. The sum

    total of this body of work is massive, often guideless, of variable quality,

    and unfortunately fragmented among many fields, industries, and special-

    ists. The Cambridge Companion to the Rolling Stones was conceived to “de-

    silo” the field and shine a light on the various communities of knowledge

    about the Rolling Stones. It brings musicologists, ethnomusicologists,

    players, Stones scholars, film scholars, and filmmakers into a single volume

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    the mid-century of their career. It further broadens the approach to their

    music by considering new issues about sound, culture, media representa-

    tion, the influence of world music, fan communities, group personnel, and

    the importance of their revival, post-1989. In addition, threaded through-

    out these essays are album- and song-oriented discussions of the landmark

    recordings of the group and their influences.

    The present collection is cast in three parts. In Part I, “Albums, Songs,

    Players, and the Core Repertory of the Rolling Stones,” John Covach traces

    the rapid evolution of the Stones through their recordings up to 1974, with

    particular emphasis on their early stylistic development and singles. Bill

    Janovitz looks at the relationship between the original composition of the

    band and the critical changes that take place musically through successive

    personnel changes and the eventual enlargement of the band’s sound in

    the 1970s. In a further study, Covach revises the notion that the Stones’

    1967 album Their Satanic Majesties Request is the end of the group’s

    “Psychedelic” phase and shows instead traits of Psychedelia continuing

    in and influencing Beggars Banquet. Victor Coelho accepts the notion of

    the four albums from Beggars to Exile as the “core repertory” but places the

    texts and musical styles of these releases within the larger poetic and

    political dimension of exile, one that allows many vernacular, rural, and

    gospel styles to enter their sphere as another vocabulary. Paul Harris’ essay

    follows the group from their “exilic” period to their unsure position in the

    mid- to late-seventies, in which a new urban sound is cultivated under the

    influences of punk, post-punk, and club culture.

    Part II, “Sound, Roots, and Brian Jones,” begins with Ralph Maier, who,

    drawing on gear, recording, and studio equipment, contributes an import-

    ant study of the Stones’ sound, an often neglected but critical topic whether

    discussing recorded or live performance. The deep influence of country –

    and of country records, players, and techniques – on the Stones is analyzed

    by Daniel Beller McKenna in his essay that draws on case studies of five

    songs and their roots backgrounds. Finally, ethnomusicologist Brita

    Heimarck takes a fresh approach to the influence of Brian Jones, perhaps

    the most mythologized and misunderstood member of the Rolling Stones,

    using Deleuze’s theory of assemblage to explain his unusually wide influ-

    ences and culturally diverse musical interests.

    Finally, Part III, “Stones on Film, Revival, and Fans,” begins with film

    scholar Michael Baker’s study of the Stones as represented on film within

    the context of the “rockumentary” genre, from Whitehead to Scorsese.

    Coelho’s essay on “Second Life” examines how the Stones at the end of the

    1980s, corroded internally, marginalized by rap, and seemingly left with

    only their past history, triumphantly revived themselves, and in the pro-

    cess curated a lasting history of the band – on their own terms. Modern

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    culture is full of “shrines” to the Rolling Stones – websites, fanzines, and a

    flourishing market for relics (bootlegs, outtakes, videos, and the like),

    which cry out for attention within the study of identity formation and

    the rituals of audiences. Filmmaker Philippe Puicouyoul’s “fan memoir”

    that closes the volume gives us a close view of the global Stones fan

    community, and is a fitting conclusion underlining the main element

    common to those of us who listen to, play, study, and write about the

    Stones: we are all, in the end, fans.

    We express gratitude here to a number of people who have contributed

    everything from crucial information and deep conversations about the

    Stones’ music to small, but valuable pieces of knowledge, in particular:

    Peter Deacon, Tom Knowles, Kenton McDonald, Dave Morton, Larry

    Finn, Thomas Peattie, Marcie Cohen, Jason McCool, John Kmetz, David

    Campbell, Peter Whitehead, the Rev. Robert Hill, and David Dolata; and

    for granting many requests to visit the Rolling Stones Mobile Studio,

    Andrew Mosker, President and CEO of the National Music Centre in

    Calgary, Alberta, where the mobile resides. We also thank Vicky Cooper,

    former Commissioning Editor at Cambridge University Press, for helping

    us conceive of this Companion.

    In addition, we acknowledge the digital repositories and archives that

    made their collections available and kindly assisted with the images used

    and cited in this book, in particular Art Resource of New York, Getty

    Images, the Howard Gotlieb Archive at Boston University, and the Library

    and Archives of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland.

    Finally, we thank Eilidh Burrett and Lisa Sinclair at Cambridge Uni-

    versity Press, and the copy-editor Andrew Dawes, for their careful work on

    the manuscript, and of course Kate Brett, Publisher, Music and Theatre at

    the Press for her excellent suggestions, encouragement, and, above all,

    patience.

    vc and jc

    Boston and Rochester

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    1 Cited in the official program booklet for the Rolling Stones traveling exhibit, Exhibitionism: TheRolling Stones (n.p. [2016]).

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    Abbreviations

    According Dora Loewenstein and Philip Dodd, eds., According to the Rolling

    Stones. London, 2003.

    DaltonFTY David Dalton, ed. The Rolling Stones: The First Twenty Years.

    New York, 1981.

    DaltonRS David Dalton, ed. Rolling Stones. New York and London, 1972.

    Faithfull Marianne Faithfull (with David Dalton), Faithfull: An

    Autobiography. New York, 1994.

    JanovitzEMS Bill Janovitz, Exile on Main Street. New York, 2005.

    JanovitzRO Bill Janovitz, Rocks Off. New York, 2013.

    Karnbach &

    Bernson James Karnbach and Carol Bernson, It’s Only Rock ’n’ Roll: The

    Ultimate Guide to the Rolling Stones. New York, 1997.

    Life Keith Richards (with James Fox), Life. New York, 2010.

    Margotin &

    Guesdon Philippe Margotin and Jean-Michel Guesdon, The Rolling Stones –

    All the Songs: The Story Behind Every Track. New York, 2016.

    MM Melody Maker.

    Rock Hall Library and Archives, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Museum.

    RSCRS Martin Elliott, The Rolling Stones – Complete Recording Sessions

    1962–2012: 50th Anniversary Edition. London, 2012.

    RSG Andy Babiuk and Greg Prevost,Rolling Stones Gear.

    Milwaukee, 2013.

    RSt Rolling Stone (magazine).

    Trynka Paul Trynka, Brian Jones: The Making of the Rolling Stones.

    New York, 2014.

    WennerMJR Jann Wenner, “Mick Jagger Remembers,” Rolling Stone (December

    14, 1995): https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/mick-

    jagger-remembers-92946.

    WymanRWTS Bill Wyman, Rolling with the Stones. New York, 2002.

    WymanSA Bill Wyman, Stone Alone: The Story of a Rock ’n’ Roll Band.

    New York, 1990.

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